Mailing-card.



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MAILING CARD.

(Application filed. Nov. 92, 1899.) (No Model.)

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ANDREW W. STEIGER, OF BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

MAILING-CARD.

SP EGIFIGATION forming part of Letters Patent N 0. 653,594, dated July 10, 1900.

Application filed November 22, 1899. Serial No. 737.893. (N0 model.)

T0 or whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, ANDREW W. STEIGER, a citizen of the United States, residing in Boston,'in the county of Suffolk and State of Massachusetts,have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Mailing- Cards, of which the following, taken in connection with the accompanying drawings, is a specification.

My invention relates to devices for inclosing coin and like articles, so that they may be safely transmitted in the mails uncovered or within an ordinary envelop. Relatively heavy small articles harder and stiffer than paper have been found to break during transmission from place to place through the ordinary envelops, and a variety of more or less unsatisfactory contrivances have been offered to supply a safe carrier for such articles and to prevent detection of their character. In most cases mucilage or other adhesive has been employed to efiect closure, which coming in contact with the article may injure or deface the same. I have endeavored to remedy the defects of the usual devices em ployed and my invention consists in providing a card having an aperture to receive the article to be mailed and cutting angularly through the card a short distance from a series of points toward the aperture, so as to form tabs near the aperture, the points of which tabs project radially away from the said aperture. I also form a nick in the edge of the card and draw a piece of twine into the nick then after pressing the tabs so they project beyond the card pass the twine around each tab and across the aperture to an op posite tab, and so on in sequence to all the tabs, and then back to the nick. I now push the tabs through the card so they project from the other side, and having reversed the card place the article in the apertureon the crossed twine. Again taking up the twine, I pass it around the tabs on this side of the card in like manner and fasten it by passing it into the nick, finally pressing the tabs back flush with the card. It will be noticed that the twine is securely locked between the tabs and card, so the network may safely support the article.

The drawings supplied to illustrate an embodiment of my invention show, in Figure 1, an elevation of a mailing-card and an article in place; Fig. 2, a sketch to indicate more clearly the network on each side of the card.

The card a has an aperture b to receive the article 0, and a nick 01 extending inward from one edge. Angular incisions through the card a extend toward the aperture 17, forming the tabs 6, f, g, and h. The tabs are forced outward from a face of the card, and having inserted a piece of twine t' in the nick d it is drawn across the aperture 1), to and around the tab e, thence to the tab f, and again across the aperture to the tab g, from which it is passed to and around the tab it, and thence to the nick d. The tabs are now pressed through to the other side and the card turned over. Now the article 0 is placed in the aperture 1) on the twine, and the twine i is passed over the tab 6, across the aperture 1), and around the tab f, thence to the tabs g and h, and finally to the nick d, at each passage crossing the aperture b. The tabs may now be pressed flush with the card a, and it will be found that the tabs jam the twine L tightly against the sides of the incisions in the card, so that the network on each side of the card holds the article from displacement, and it may be mailed in this condition or inclosed in an ordinary envelop.

Instead of the nick (1 another tab may be substituted, and instead of one piece of twine two short pieces may be used to form the network.

Having described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States, is

r 1. In a mailing-card, a series of tabs arranged about an aperture in a card, combined with an interlacing of twine attached to the tabs, substantially as described.

2. In a mailing-card, opposed networks of twine secured to a card, and crossing an aperture so as to hold an article therein, substantially as described.

3. In a mailing-card, the combination with a card having an aperture, tabs and a retaining-nick, of a piece of twine secured in the nick about the tabs and interlaced across the aperture, on both sides of the card, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I have hereuntosubscribed my name this 17th day of November, A. D. 1899.

ANDREW W. STEIGER.

\Vitnesses:

GEO. A. DENHAM, CHAS. B. CROGKER.

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